Hey All, I haven't blogged in ages on FireAC or my own blog, so yeah, my blogging skills are really rusty now. Okay, so T3W9 was a "week of worship"(WOW), haha, new acronym, but yeah, its a bad bad acronym i believe.
Why should this be more than a week of worship. Simple answer, but sometimes we just simply forget. Worship is really more than just singspiration, evangelism, prayer and the list goes on. Its about using YOUR LIFE to please and make God glorified. Quite a simple concept, but some times we forget it. We always think we must evangelise, must do 1 hour QTs, but you know what, its more than that, the small things like just short prayers like "thank you God for that tissue my friend passed me when I needed it" count too and we sometimes forget that.
Okay, now lets move on to like singspiration. What makes a good singspiration? Is it the good keys chosen, is it the uber guitar rifts that a guitarist can play, is it the crazy range of the worship leader, is it by how well planned out the songs are? Well, they do contribute to a good singspiration in the technical sense, and they do help others to connect with God, but they aren't essential. Sometimes the best singspirations are simply the simple ones, there doesn't even need to be a guitar, a singspiration when everyone is just so bubbly and excited to SING OUT their praises to God is a good singspiration. It isn't the worship leader/musicians that make a singspiration good, its YOU. After all singspiration is about YOU SINGING/CRYING OUT to praise God.
So now, you know songs. Do you notice something? Usually the most simple of songs, the most simple ones that don't have all the crazy guitar rifts, crazy technical stuff, are usually the most impactful songs. Lets take the song "How Great is Our God" written by a well known worship leader Chris Tomlin. How simple is the chorus. Another one, "Blessed be Your Name", such a simple bridge and chorus.
How Great is Our God [Chorus]
How great is our God, sing with me
How great is our God, and all will see
How great, how great is our God
Blessed be Your Name [Chorus and Bridge]Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name
Well, all these simple yet powerful songs came straight from the heart of the writers as they were writing it. You know, sometimes when I just simply can't seem to love God at times or accept some things, I'll just keep listening to Blessed be Your Name over and over again until I'll be able to really mean the words that keep coming to me. God gave us music, so yeah, use it to minister to ourselves and to praise Him.
So okay, sorry for being so messy with my points. Anyways, here's 3 points or things you should do before any singspiration or worship session.
- Pray and ask God to let you be free to worship him in songs of praise.
- Write down anything that may be distracting you like homework, assignments and important things to remember. So hopefully you can be free to worship, and after you're done you can remember the things which you dropped to worship.
- Give your ALL, close your eyes, smile and come into worship as if you've not done so for months.
Lin Xunliang
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